Chapter: Professional Ethics in Engineering - Responsibilities and Rights

Collegiality and Loyalty

Collegiality is a kind of connectedness grounded in respect for professional expertise and in a commitment to the goals and values of the profession and as such, collegiality includes a disposition to support and co-operate with one‘s colleagues‟.- Craig Ihara.

COLLEGIALITY AND LOYALTY:

Collegiality is a kind of connectedness
grounded in respect for professional expertise and in a commitment to the goals
and values of the profession and as such, collegiality includes a disposition
to support and co-operate with one‘s colleagues‟.- Craig Ihara. The central
elements of collegiality are respect, commitment, connectedness and
cooperation.

Respect: Acknowledge the worth of other
engineers engaged in producing socially useful and safe products.

Commitment: Share a devotion to the moral
ideals inherent in the practice of engineering. Connectedness: Aware of being
part of a co-operative undertaking created by shared commitments and expertise.
Collegiality, like most virtues, can be misused and distorted. It should not be
reduced to „group interest‟ but should be a shared devotion for public good. It
is not defaming colleagues, but it does not close the eyes to unethical
practices of the co-professionals, either.

Classifications
of Loyalty

·Agency-Loyalty

·Fulfill
one‟s contractual duties to an employer.

·Duties
are particular tasks for which one is paid

·Co-operating
with colleagues

·Following
legitimate authority within the organization.

·Identification-Loyalty:

·It has
to do with attitudes, emotions and a sense of personal identity.